After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

To be unbroken, what would that be?If words that were spoken, had not shattered me

People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.